Heidi N. Moore is the New York bureau chief and Wall Street correspondent for Marketplace, where she reports and writes about the culture of banks, companies, financing and markets.

Moore started at Marketplace in January 2011. She enjoys Marketplace's smart, snappy approach and is keenly focused on interpreting and explaining Wall Street so that it's accessible to everyone.

Prior to joining Marketplace, Moore was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where she was the lead writer for the paper’s award-winning Deal Journal online and daily newspaper column during the height (and depths) of the world financial crisis. In addition, she wrote an analysis of banks and mergers and broke news of SEC investigations, big acquisitions, and Barclays Capital buying most of Lehman Brothers out of bankruptcy.  Before that, she was U.S. Bureau Chief for London-based, Dow Jones-owned weekly newspaper and daily website, Financial News. For six years, she was a senior writer covering Wall Street banks and power brokers for The Deal magazine.

Moore’s articles on Wall Street banks and finance have been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Financial Times and Slate.  

Moore is a graduate of Columbia University and a native New Yorker. In her free time, Moore enjoys running and traveling.

Features By Heidi N. Moore

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Extended payroll tax cut serves as 'stealth stimulus'

Congressional negotiators have agreed to a deal that would extend the payroll tax cut through the end of the year, which means more money will go into more people's pockets and perhaps, they will go out and spend it.
Posted In: payroll tax, stimulus
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Payroll tax cut, benefit extension a type of stimulus

A tentative deal has been reached to extend the payroll tax cut, as well as some unemployment benefits and Medicare payments. As the economy stays sluggish, we're in an era of seemingly endless government stimulus.
Posted In: economic stimulus, payroll tax, unemployment benefits
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Key financial reform gets push back

The Volcker Rule aims to prevent banks from betting their own money. Banks and foreign governments say could hurt markets more than it helps.
Posted In: Volcker Rule
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Volcker Rule aims for fewer risks in the market

There's renewed debate today about the so-called "Volcker Rule." It's part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform passed two years ago. Basically, the Volcker Rule says banks should take fewer risks in the market.
Posted In: Volcker Rule, Paul Volcker, Banks
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Why Greece has to make its payments

Why is it so important for Greece to get its bailout money by March 20th?
Posted In: Greece, debt
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Reconnecting with the music of Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston's crystal-clear voice is everywhere today -- belting, beautifully, "I Will Always Love You". It's songs like that that'll no doubt start topping the sales charts once again.
Posted In: Music, whitney houston
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Who Loves Ya, Baby? The Federal Reserve

The #Fedvalentines meme, started by economist Justin Wolfers, injected some fun into an otherwise leaden week.
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Cleaning up the mortgage mess

Today's $26 billion settlement between the government and five of the nation's biggest banks could free up the billions in mortgage securities they possess. But the settlement will also change many of the ways banks deal with foreclosures.
Posted In: Housing, foreclosure, mortgage, mortgage settlement
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Bernanke stands firm on low interest rates

How does Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke know the economy will need low interest rates through 2014? He doesn’t, but we listen anyway.
Posted In: Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, interest rates
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Wall Street CEO takes rare lead on social issue

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who faced PR battles during the financial crisis, emerges as a national spokesman for gay marriage.
Posted In: Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, Wall Street

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